"This pragmatic and visionary work provides impressive new evidence for the Anduring beneficial effecto of high-quality, family-oriented, comprehensive early education in a public school setting."
—Edward Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University

Penny Hauser-Cram is a professor at Boston College in the Lynch School of Education. She received her Ed.D. in Human Development from Harvard University in 1983 and her research focuses on children and adolescents with developmental disabilities and children and adolescents living in poverty.